Is it Worth to go for Magento 2 Upgrade?

While moving from Magento 1.x to Magento 2, there can be three most common queries that the most of the merchants may ask from you as summed up below:

When to upgrade to Magento 2?

Is it a smooth or an awful process?

Is it worth to go for an upgrade?

In this writeup, we are explaining the above issues to every merchant who usually look forward for the new features through a rose-colored lens. After going through all promises of Magento about the new platform, we have found and summarized some actual situations that make Magento 2 upgrade worth an upgrade.

When to upgrade to Magento 2?

Your current site and condition are the bottom line to decide whether you should go for an update or not. Although there should be no rush if your site is performing fine and you are not using much out-dated versions i.e. before 1.13 EE and 1.8 CE, still you should start exploring for Magento 2.0 upgrade and plans. If your Magento site is running on an older software version or facing some serious performance issues even with newer Magento versions or using many third party extensions or plugins, then it is a high time to plan for an update.

Is it a smooth or an awful process?

You may count up-gradation to Magento 2.0 as a less-than-smooth process. It comes with a migration tool ready to help you with the data that like products, store setup, orders, customers, promo rules etc. that move across the platforms. Theme and code customizations are not transferable and it is also clearly mentioned over it. On Installing Magento 2.0, this would need to be redone with extra investments. But still this should be treated as a good thing with following benefits:

You can rethink your business to get some new ideas.

You can get overcome some legacy codes

Helps to improve your overall site usability.

Is it worth to go for an upgrade?

There is no going back for Magento as it change itself and also supportive for several years to the older versions. So, you need not to be in hurry if currently you are going well with your older versions and extensions and don't have any further plans or strategies to be a market leader in your business.

But if you have active plans for future business growth then you can stay with current Magento 1.x version for some time and consider following important factors:

Think about your priorities for improvement.

Select extensions that are not used actively.

Ask with your solution partner about Magento 2 updates and plans.

As a Magento store owner, this current year 2016 can be good for taking some good steps for your Ecommerce business. So, if you are trying to stay on top of your game, then Magento 2.0 can brings a whole new world for merchants and their solution partners as well.

Contact us to ask for any help if planning for the next steps for your Magento 2.0 business.

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